Bio
Lei is an engineer manager at Quora, leading the feed ranking and content distribution team. She also oversees Quora’s machine learning engineer guild, consisting of machine learning experts and software engineers who use machine learning to solve many challenging problems across the product, such as home feed ranking, related questions, answer ranking, and topic inference. Prior to Quora, Lei grew and managed a number of engineering teams at Google: Google Now recommendations, Google+ recommendation and personalizations, and Google Ads Quality. She has years of experience in machine learning and is passionate about its application across different fields, such as data mining, user modeling, content recommendation, and spam detection. Lei holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University.